EVE Technology Lab

UPDATED: EVE Online - Odyssey 1.0.16



Essentially we'll be creating a mirror image of a target character by duplicating your original settings file(s) and pointing the client to these new files with the character values of your choice alt. (These character values are your characters 'user' and 'char' ID's. I'll explain how to find them when relevant )

Settings that will be mirrored but not limited to:

Shortcuts:
Windows
Combat
General
Navigation
Modules
Movement
Drones
Character Creation

Overview Settings:
Creates a mirror image of overview settings based on target characters settings.

Market Quickbars: (requires extra code. settings are on the server)
Creates a mirror image of market quickbar Items based on target characters settings.

NEOCOM:
Creates a mirror image of target characters NEOCOM. Groups, items within each group, etc,.

Channels
Creates a mirror image of target characters channels and channel placement.

(NOTE: Once mirror has been made you will be put in all channels your target character is in. (WARNING: Make sure to close channels before creating image if you don't wish for your alts cover to be blown. ALL cached Passwords remain.)

Display & Graphics
All graphics and display settings.
Dsplay, Camera Settings, Captain Quarters Settings, Effects, Miscellaneous, Character Creation, Graphic Content
UI scaling is now 'mirrorable'.

Drones Groups (Now 'mirrorable')
All drone groups.

General, Audio, & Chat
All setting. Pretty much anything editable client side.

Window Placement
All window placement is mirrored.
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How It's Done:

Were looking for your chars 'user' and 'char' ID's.

1.) Find your settings folder

WINXP 32 - C:\Documents and Settings\USERNAME\Local Settings\Application Data\CCP\EVE\c_program_files_ccp_eve_tranquility\settings

WIN7 64 - C:\Users\USERNAME\AppData\Local\CCP\EVE\c_program_files_(x86)_ccp_eve_tranquility\settings

WIN8 64 - C:\Users\USERNAME\AppData\Local\CCP\EVE\c_program_files_(x86)_ccp_eve_tranquility\settings

2.) Make backup!! Move backup to desktop or place of preference.

3.) Remove all the files in the folder except for the following 4: These are the main clients cache and graphics file. If you delete all 4 your client will read as opening for the first time. Delete to start from scratch.

prefs - Configuration File

core_public__.yaml

core_char__

core_user__

Browser - Folder

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Now we need to figure out what your user and char value is.

IE: core_user_1234567 - 7 digits
IE: core_char_12345678 - 8 digits

If you have logged into your client with more than one character/account there will be multiple files in here of each. You'll need to figure out which 2 files correspond with the characters you want to make copies of and which are the ones you want to be overwritten.
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4.) To find these values: Once your logged into game (A FRESH LOGIN) on the character you wish to make images of open up your 'monitor'. This can be done by pressing "Shift + Control + Alt + M". Locate the 'Logs" Tab. Open it. Press 'stop' on log.

The string you are looking for should now be the 6th string down assuming you've done nothing else other than logging in. This is what you will be looking for;



(NOTE: Changed incriminating values to '0' as well as User and Char ID values. Within these strings you can see systems/stations/stargates/session values which can be converted to a readable format with a dictionary. ADVICE: Don't f**k with this!)

You now know the Char and User ID's of your target characters. Do this for each character to obtain the values Save the values.

5.) Go back to your backup file you made in step 2. Locate the core_user_'value' and core_char_'value' that corresponds to the character settings you want to make images of. Make a copy of each and put them both back in the original file. 'Settings'. Now your mains settings are restored.

6.) Make another copy of the core_user_1234567 file and paste it in the settings folder also. However, now ending with the value of the character you want imaged.

7.) Do the same for the core_char_12345678 file.

9.) Open new Launcher, run client, log in. All settings, channels, etc, should now be mirrored for each of your characters.

UPDATE: Odyssey has brought some new ways to 'file reference'. You can now 'force' the client to read from the same two core_user and core_char files for every character you are running rather than keep updating and copying over. you can also 'host' the file elsewhere but still point to it.

If this has helped you or wish to add to it feel free to comment as well with any ideas or friendly bumps =) Thanks and fly safe o7

Az Tek

Lol, Unfortunately yes it was. =/.

Doing it only takes about 15 mins or less tho.

Thanks for the research!

Awesome work, thanks!

Ikr. Ouch tho =/ How is Win8 handling with EVE? Curious to try it out.

But on the bright side, you have just given me an awesome idea! Will update thread in the morning, bed time for me!

win8, as much as i am shocked to say it, has been brilliant so far
i like the look, it's faster and has been perfectly stable so far
my win7 installation had some issues which i did not want to carry over, so i used the refresh feature in win8 which baffed my eve install but c'east la vie

^^ That. Your charID is your charID is your charID. It's the same everywhere you go, including your portraits on the image server. If you want to know your charID, you can just go into the forums or onto EVE Gate and check the URL for your portrait.

Thank you for puting that issue on the forum.

I stumbled upon these files just 2 days ago on my desperate search on how to copy some of the settings to my 2nd account character.

@ CCP : It's nice to have separate settings on every character, but ... please see, there are also good reasons for simply copy some settings to another own character. Please make it a convenient customers choice.

I've looked it over and the issues is this. You can in fact quickly find your core_char_"value" by the method you have described. However, you will still need to locate the value for core_user_'Value". And to my knowledge the only way to find the value for user_ is to use the method I have described. So either way you will still need to use the steps I have laid out. If there is another way that anyone knows please let me know. Would be appreciated. Thanks.

An alternative method is https://api.eveonline.com/eve/CharacterID.xml.aspx?names=James Amril-Kesh. Just change the bold part to your character name and your characterID is displayed.